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...true lungs, its entire body rhythmically expands and contracts to aid its respiration when it is exerting itself (or, for many breeds, continually). Given its l

...", though it has little connection with literal breathing, in the sense of respiration; certainly "fire-breathing" [[life form]]s can't extract [[oxygen]] from fi

...licable, the better to supply the needed [[oxygen]] (or other effects of [[respiration]]). Some ambates even have separate [[brain]]s, or at least [[ganglion|gan ...s false navel serves a different purpose (e.g. a supplementary orifice for respiration), but in other cases its purpose remains mysterious.

...trachea, as it doesn't breathe through its mouth; while the mereger does [[respiration|respire]], the air is drawn in and expelled through vents on its sides, und

...tive ears and uses for [[echolocation]]. (This, along with the qennis's [[respiration]], is made possible by a constant inflow of air through its nostrils.) By

...hydraulic system of fluid-filled canals, which also double as a system for respiration and transportation of nutrients and waste products. Iorges can breathe wat

...to most [[life form]]s, and indeed most [[life form|creatures]] that can [[respiration|breathe]] air can also survive by breathing spacemist, though not without p

* Ability to go without [[respiration|breathing]] like a fask

...gic]] can get around that, allowing visitors and immigrants from Eolo to [[respiration|breathe]] the otherwise unbreathable gases and withstand [[temperature]]s t

...them with earth or other materials, often leaving their mouths free for [[respiration]] and speech and their [[ear]]s free so they can [[hearing|hear]] her quest

...ns directly rather than being contained in [[blood vessel|vessel]]s. To [[respiration|breathe]], the roper clam takes in water through a tube called an incurrent

Like most aquatic [[arthropod]]s, the xastre uses the [[gill]]s to [[respiration|breathe]]. Developed from branches of the legs, the gills are feathery app

...e|molecular]] [[oxygen]]. This makes for a convenient complement to the [[respiration]] of animals, which consume oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, and makes it

...millennia]]. They are even found beneath Kadis's oceans; not needing to [[respiration|breathe]] [[air]], they can function beneath the water much as they can abo

...ysical processes worked in the presence of magic, then that would preclude respiration, digestion, muscular action, and pretty much every other biological process

[[Respiration]] takes place through [[book gill]]s attached to the base of each of the ba